Comment by markbnj
7 years ago
Could there not be value in knowing how many pixels your users have available to view your things? You could presumably get that information from device characteristics but then could also presumably use that for fingerprinting.
You as the developer have access to and are aware of all possible display dimensions and aspect ratios. It's not that hard to prioritize the sizes you want to support and then work based off that. There are plenty of tools out there that let you simulate different screen sizes for testing too. I don't see this information providing any extra value.
But you are assuming the users browse the website in full screen mode/maximised. Whilst true for most mobile devices, this is certainly not given on desktops.
No, I'm not assuming that, because regardless of how the user browses your site, you're still going to prioritize the sizes important to you.
It wouldn't make sense to prioritize optimizing site design for the few people who are using a non-standard size.
http://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats
Surely the best sizes to prioritize would be the ones your users are using the most?
Also known as the most common sizes used by everyone else for most other sites...
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